There
are several tags within the head section of a page that contribute to
the indexing of your page by the search engines. If they are done
correctly and without spamming, they can be very helpful to the ranking
of your pages. These tags
can help contribute to the total density of keywords used in your
pages; they can contribute to what is displayed as a description for
your pages in the search engine results and ultimately, they can aid in
helping your site's rankings. These tags are the Title tag, the Meta
Description, and the Meta Keyword tag.

Search Marketers' Association, the new trade association for UK search marketers, held their first meeting this month. SMA-UK intends to present an alternative to SEMPO.

Webmaster World let the good times roll in New Orleans. Coverage by SERoundtable included sessions by Bruce Clay.

Attaboys

Search Engine Watch forums celebrated their
one year anniversary this month and welcomed their 5,000th member!

Google has had a good month. Not only did they get named the top media company but they also saw their stock price rise above $300. Additionally, they released the wonderful
Sitemaps tool to the delight of SEOs everywhere.

Finally we go over to Yahoo who this month have done good works: releasing their
employee blogging guidelines, buying servers for Wikimedia and teaming with Cisco on anti-forgery tech.

There have been quite a few rumors stirring in the Google world this month. Among them include the introduction of Google Wallet , Google's own form of a paypal service, although they claim that they will not be in competition with paypal or eBay.

Kuro5hin
made an attempt to predict which companies Google will acquire next.
They present a list of potential companies which would make sensible
Google acquisitions, comparing them to recent Google additions.

Finally, Google
is the subject of more industry rumor concerning a possible
introduction of maps in 3-D, through the use of lasers and digital
photography.

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